Fox and Hounds Public House Opposite the Post Office
FOX AND HOUNDS PUBLIC HOUSE OPPOSITE THE POST OFFICE, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1101981
- Date first listed:
- 19-Sept-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Fox and Hounds Public House Opposite the Post Office
- Statutory Address:
- FOX AND HOUNDS PUBLIC HOUSE OPPOSITE THE POST OFFICE, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1101981
- Date first listed:
- 19-Sept-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Fox and Hounds Public House Opposite the Post Office
- Statutory Address 1:
- FOX AND HOUNDS PUBLIC HOUSE OPPOSITE THE POST OFFICE, HIGH STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- FOX AND HOUNDS PUBLIC HOUSE OPPOSITE THE POST OFFICE, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hunsdon
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 41676 14044
Details
TL 4114 HUNSDON HIGH STREET (east side) Hunsdon village
7/14 Fox and Hounds PH opposite the - Post Office
GV II
House, now a PH. C17, altered and E range rebuilt in early C18, windows altered in early C19, single storey extension to SE in later C19. Large, L-shaped, 2 storeys and attics, timberframed plastered house facing N. Steep old red tiled roof, gabled at W but E range hipped. Single storey grey brick extension at SE with parallel hipped slate roofs. Stair tower at rear in the angle of the wings in line with the large central chimney of the front range. Formal 3 windows N front with 2 flat-topped dormers with sash windows, coved eaves, plain margins around windows, flush sashes with moulded architraves and 6/6 panes. Central half-glazed door has a moulded architrave, swelled frieze and cornice to the flat hood carried on 2 slender Tuscan columns on high plinths and 2 half column responds. Ground floor has triple sash windows with 2/2:6/6:2/2 panes. Bar door to right in moulded doorcase with flat hood on shaped brackets. Symmetrical E front to garden with similar sash windows with 6/6 panes and central door. SE brick extension has segmental arches and sash windows with margin lights. Interior has early C18 cornice to main Ground floor rooms and a good bolection moulded marble fire surround (?re-used) in the SE extension. C19 sash windows have moulded panelled shutters included within the internal architrave. Probably the site of Hykmans, freehold in 1532: doctor's house: became a pub in 1830s when landowner demolished another public house (HLHS (1979) 37). Tithe Award of 1843 signed at a meeting at the Fox and Hounds (HRO). A large C17 timberframed plastered house with a wide early C18 cross wing and surviving features of special interest. Part of a picturesque group in the village Conservation Area.
Listing NGR: TL4167614044
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 159975
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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